Celebrating Peer Review Week at BMC: What’s next for Research Integrity and the Reproducibility Crisis?
John Ioannidis’ 2005 article Why Most Published Research Findings Are False was an uncomfortable wake-up call for the scientific community. …
Research
Genomics can help us better understand and address threats to schistosomiasis control
A study led by researchers at the Colorado School of Public Health reviews possible mechanisms for schistosomiasis persistence and reemergence …
Call for Papers! Introducing BMC Cancer’s New Collection: Extracellular Vesicles in Cancer Progression
Over the last few decades it has become clear that the cross-talk between neoplastic cells and the tumor microenvironment, comprising …
COVID-19 Risk Adjustment, Driving Transformation or Normalizing Deviance? It is Our Choice
There is no doubt that COVID-19 has placed great stress on our healthcare system. In many areas of the world, healthcare …
Highlights of the BMC Series – August 2022
BMC Ecology and Evolution – Sustained population decline of rodents is linked to accelerated climate warming and human disturbance Acceleration …
Armigeres subalbatus, a potential vector for Zika virus
Prof. Xiaoguang Chen and his team from Southern Medical University, China investigated the infection and transmission of Armigeres subalbatus …
Breast Cancer Awareness Month: improve global diagnostic rates to reduce breast cancer mortality
Breast Cancer Awareness Month runs for the whole of October and, once again, reveals the severity of this disease, and …
Filipe Dantas Torres – winner of the 2022 WSAVA One Health Award
Many congratulations to Filipe Dantas Torres, Editor-in-Chief of Parasites & Vectors, on winning the 2022 World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) One …
BMC Ecology and Evolution attends The International Association for Ecology Congress 2022
This year BMC Ecology and Evolution followed the INTECOL 2022 congress online. INTECOL aims to act as an international advocate …
Southeast Asian clearwing moths buzz like their model bees
Dr Marta Skowron Volponi, author of a study published in Frontiers in Zoology, takes us through the findings that moth …